Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libboost-all-dev : Depends: libboost-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-chrono-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-date-time-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-filesystem-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-graph-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-graph-parallel-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-iostreams-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-locale-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-math-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-mpi-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-mpi-python-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-program-options-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-python-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-random-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-regex-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-serialization-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-signals-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-system-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-test-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-thread-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-timer-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libboost-wave-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

2 Answers
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Oke it seems you have already installed a higher version of boost (1.53), the current version which libboost-all-dev points too is 1.49 (see this). You can't install both, so you will need to remove the newer boost if you want to install the old one.